Table 3.

Associations of ovine KRTAPs and KRTs with wool traits.

Gene 1	Sheep Type	Traits Associated 2	Ref.
OAR1
KRTAP7-1	Kutta, Kari, Balkhi, Balkhi-cross, and Ramghani-cross	Yield, MSL	[35]
	Rambouillet	GFW, MSL	[36]
KRTAP8-1	Southdown × Merino	MFC, MSS	[37]
	Pakistani sheep	MSL, OpSD, CVOp	[38]
	Chinese Tan	CVFD in fine wool	[39]
	Chinese Merino	MFD	[40]
	Rambouillet	GFW, MFD	[41]
	Peppin Merino	MFD	[42]
KRTAP8-2	Chinese Tan	Fibre length, wool crimping	[43]
KRTAP21-1	Southdown × Merino	Yield	[44]
KRTAP21-2	Southdown × Merino	MSL	[45]
KRTAP20-2	Southdown × Merino	MFC	[46]
KRTAP6-1	Southdown × Merino	MFD, FDSD, CVFD, MFC	[47]
	NZ Romney	MFD, CVFD	[48]
	Chinese Tan	Fibre length, wool crimping	[49]
	Sandyno and Nilagiri	GFW, Yield, MFD	[50]
	Peppin Merino	MFD	[42]
KRTAP22-1	Southdown × Merino	Yield, MFC	[51]
	Barki, Rahmani and Ossimi	CR, SL, KS, GCG	[52]
KRTAP6-3	Southdown × Merino	MFD, FDSD, PF	[53]
KRTAP20-1	Southdown × Merino	GFW, Yield, MFD, FDSD, PF	[54]
	Chinese Tan	MFC in fine wool	[55]
KRTAP36-1	Southdown × Merino	PF	[56]
KRTAP36-2	Southdown × Merino	Yield	[57]
KRTAP19-5	Chinese Tan	MFC in fine wool	[58]
KRTAP15-1	Southdown × Merino	Yield, FDSD	[59]
KRTAP26-1	Southdown × Merino	MFD, FDSD, PF, MSL	[60]
KRTAP28-1	Southdown × Merino	MFD	[61]
OAR3
KRT84	Gansu Alpine Fine-wool	MFD, CVFD, MFC, CF, MSL, MSS	[62]
KRT85	Southdown × Merino	GFW, CFW, PF	[63]
KRT83	Southdown × Merino	MFD, FDSD, CVFD, MFC, PF, Yield	[64]
KRT86	Chinese Merino (Xinjiang type)	MFD, crimp score	[65]
KRT81	Southdown × Merino	GFW, CFW	[66]
OAR11
KRT32	Gansu Alpine Fine-wool	MFD, CF, MFC	[67]
KRTAP3-2	Rambouillet	GFW	[68]
KRTAP1-1	Merino and Merino-cross	FDSD, Yield at 24 months of age	[69]
KRTAP1-2	Southdown × Merino	GFW, CFW, Yield, FDSD, CVFD, PF, MFC, MSL, MSS	[70]
KRTAP1-3	Chinese Merino	MFD	[40]
KRT33A	Perendale	Fleece weight, Yield, MSL, MFC, crimp frequency, core bulk	[71]
	Merino and Merino-cross	FDSD, MSS	[69]
	Barki, Rahmani, Osseimi, Awase, and two crossbreds	CFW, MFD, MSL, MSS	[72]
KRT34	Southdown × Merino	MFD, FDSD, MSL	[73]
KRT31	Southdown × Merino	GFW, CFW, MSL	[74]
	Chinese Merino (Xinjiang type)	MFD	[65]
KRT38	Chinese Merino (Xinjiang type)	Crimp count	[65]
KRT36	Chinese Merino (Xinjiang type)	MFD, wool fineness	[65]

¹ Genes are listed to reflect their order on the chromosome. ² CF—comfort factor; CFW—clean fleece weight; CVFD—coefficient of variation of fibre diameter; CR—crimp percentage; CVOp—coefficient of variation of opacity; FDSD—fibre diameter standard deviation; GCG—greasy colour grade; GFW—grease fleece weight; KS—kemp score; MFC—mean fibre curvature; MFD—mean fibre diameter; MSL—mean staple length; MSS—mean staple strength; OpSD—standard deviation of opacity; PF—prickle factor; SL—staple length; Yield—wool yield.